Cash-holder



- No. 608,654. Patented Aug 9, I898.

m. n. DALEY.

CASH HOLDER.

- (Applicatipn filed Sept. 16, 1897.) (No Model.) 2 Sheets-Sheet l.

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M. R. DALEY.

EASH HOLDER.

(Application filed Sept. 16, 1897.

Patented Aug. 9, I898.

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MICHAEL RICHARD DALEY, OF FALL RIVER, lYIASSAClIUSET'lS.

CASH-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 608,654, dated August9, 1898. Application filed September 16, 1897. Serial No. 651,922. (Nomodel.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, MICHAEL Brennan DA; LEY, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at Fall River, in the county of Bristol and State ofhilassachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inCash-Holders; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, andexact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilledin the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, referencebeing had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters and figuresof reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

My invention relates to improvements in cash-holders-a'. e., devices inwhich money is deposited and from which change is mademy object being toprovide a receptacle for use in large stores, theaters, depots, &c.,said receptacle being so -constructed that liability of giving a pieceof money of a given denomination in change for a piece of money of thesame denomination is avoided. r

To this end the invention consists, primarily, of a drawer, box, orother member provided with a series of receptacles for the deposit ofmoney received, a second series of receptacles from which money is to betaken in making change, guards for the change-receptacles, and meanswhereby when a piece of money of a given denomination is placed in itsproper receptacle all of the change-receptacles except those containingpieces of money of lower denomination than the piece received will beguarded.

The invention also consists of the various matters hereinafter describedand claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of thepresent cash-holder. Fig. 2 is a top plan view, the false bottom of oneof the compartments and the cover of one of the receptacles for thedeposit of. money being each removed. Fig. 3 is a transverse sectionalelevation on the line 3 3 of Fig. 2, the false bottom being here shownin position; and Fig. 4,- is a longitudinal sectional elevation 011 theline 4: 4 of Fig. 2.

Before passing to a detail consideration of the figures 0f the drawingsit may be remarked that the present cash-holder is particularly adaptedfor use in offices in which change is too frequently made to permit theopening and closing of a drawer at each transaction, and the holder istherefore constantly at hand. As will at once be seen, the presentstructure can for this reason be applied to a counter, can be made in abox, or constructed in Va rious other Ways; but as herein shown thedevice is applied to a drawer, which can, if desired, be closed andlocked at the .end of the period of business.

Referring now more particularly to the drawings, 1, 2,3, and 4 indicate,respectively, the front, left side, rear, and right side walls of adrawer, while 5 indicates the bottom.

Secured to the front and rear walls, and thus extending across thedrawer and substantially parallel with the side walls, is a transversepartition 6, and in the space to the right of the partition is areceptacle 7 for coins, this receptacle being of usual construction. Tothe left of the partition the drawer is peculiarly constructed for thepurpose previously indicated, the partition 6 forming one of the sidewalls, and this portion of the drawer will now be considered.

As herein shown, the portion of the drawer containing the mechanism forguarding against mistakes in making change is adapted to receivebills--zl c., treasury notes, &e.-- and is of a width from front to reara little greater than twice the length of a note. Transverse partitionsa of less height than the walls of the drawer are secured to the frontand rear walls, said partitions being so spaced as to form compartments0 slightly wider than notes. A guideway ct extends across and above thepartitions a at the rear of the drawer, while a second guidcway aextends parallel to the first guideway above the cen ter of thepartitions. As here "shown, these guideways comprise strips of tin orother suitable material bent substantially V shape, the rear guideway abeing tacked to the rear wall and the forward guideway a being securedto the side walls 2 and 6 and supported intermediate its ends bymetallic strips or posts (W. The forward guideway serves to indicate tworeceptacles c c in each compartment, the rear receptacles 0 being forthe deposit of notes received,while the front receptacles c are designedto hold notes to be used in making change.

Upon the bottom of each compartment is pivoted a rod 6, each rodextending through the rear wall and having projecting laterallytherefrom a weighted arm e',while upon each rod inside of the rear wallis secured a finger e said fingers being by the weighted arms normallyheld in upright position against steps (1 secured to the rear wall. Fromthe forward end of each rod extends an upright member a at the top ofwhich is a rearwardlyprojecting guard-finger c each of said fingersextending nearly to the forward guideway. Preferably a rod 0, itsweighted arm, its upright member a and its rearwardlyprojecting fingerare formed of a single piece of material-such as wire, for example. Eachrod is in about the longitudinal center of its compartment, and itsfinger e and upright member 0 normally are in substantiallyperpendicular position,while the weighted arm is at a right angle to thefinger e In this position the rearwardly-projecting guard-fingers are inabout the center of their respective receptacles 0 Preferably theupright members 6 are longer than the distance between the rods and theside wall or partition toward which the upright members swing, as willbe more fully hereinafter described, and in this manner the weightedarms cannot reach a perpendicular position, thus insuring the fall ofthe arms in the proper direction and the absolute return of the fingerse and e to their normal positions.

Covers m are provided for the receptacles 0, there being one less coverthan receptacle, so that some one receptacle is always open, and each ofthese covers comprises a plate 01' metal bent downwardly at its ends toproduce flanges m,while a stiffening-wire m is secured upon the top ofthe plate along the edges. The flanges 1% rest and slide in theguideways, and a slot m is formed on the side of the plate opposite tothat toward which the fingers 6 swing to permit each plate to be slidinto position over its receptacle, the fingers e entering these slots.

False bottoms n are placed in the compartments above the rods 6, saidfalse bottoms being cut away at their ends, as at n, to permit lateralmovement of the fingers c and upright members 6 It will be noticed thatone of the side compartments 0 is not provided with a rod 6 anditsattendant parts, while the cover m for the receptacle 0 of saidcompartment is not slotted as are the others. As there is no finger c inthis side compartment, a slot is not necessary in the cover, and thereason for failing to provide this compartment with a rod 6, &c., willbe apparent from the further description.

The structure illustrated is provided with compartments for notes orbills of no higher denomination than twenty dollars, (although,manifestly, more compartments can be provided, if necessary,) and thebills should be arranged in order from one side or the other, thestructure illustrated showing the one-dollar compartment on the extremeleft, the two dollar compartment to the right of this, and thefive-dollar, ten-dollar, and twenty-dollar compartments following in theorder named, the compartment for the reception of the bills of highestdenomination having no rod 6, &c. It being further understood that thenotes for making change are held in the receptacles 0 while the notesreceived are to be deposited in the receptacles a, each compartment tohold notes of but one denomination, the operation of the device will nowbe considered. Suppose that the device is in the position illustrated inFig. 1t'. e. with the one-dollar receptacle 0 uncovered and theremaining receptacles covered-that a five-dollar bill is received, andthat it is necessary to make change. The cover on over the five-dollarreceptacle 0 is pushed to the left, (the sti lfening-wire m serving as amember to be grasped if necessary,) said cover pushing the cover of thetwo-dollar receptacle before it, and in the movement of uncovering thefive-dollar receptacle the left-hand edges of the five-dollar andtwo-dollar covers come in contact, respectively, with the fingers e ofthe two-dollar and one-dollar compartments. These fingers are swung tothe left, thus turning their rods 6 and carrying to one side the guardfingers 6 The five-dollar bill can then be deposited and change made;but by reason of the position of the members the five-dollar bill is theonly one exposed, so that the cashier cannot become confused as to thedenomination of the bill given him, and as the fingers e of theone-dollar and two-dollar compartments are the only such fingers not inposition above the notes change can be given only in notes of lessdenomination than the note received. If a two-dollarbillis nextreceived, the cover over the two-dollar receptacle c is moved to theright and the weighted arm of the two-dollar compartment returns thefinger c of said compartment to its upright position against its stopand the guardfinger c in position above the two-dollar bills to be usedfor change. Thus only one dollar can be given the purchaser, as allother bills are protected by the guard-fingers.

It would of course never be necessary to give in change a bill of thesame denomination as the highest bill received, and for this reason notwenty-dollar bills are kept in the ways would serve to move the uprightfingers and to indicate that a bill is not to be deposited in areceptacle over which a strip rests, although each cover must have somemeans whereby when it is moved in a given direction the cover over aneighboring receptacle will also move, and I shall therefore term thesecovers broadly guard members. Furthermore, although I have hereinparticularly shown and described the invention for use with notes, &c.,I do not care to be limited to such use, as the same structure can beemployed for use with coins and other articles.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is'- 1. In a device of the characterindicated, a series of deposit-receptacles, a series of changereceptacles separate from the deposit receptacles, guards for saidchange-receptacles, and means whereby when a piece of money of a givendenomination is to be deposited in its proper deposit-receptacle thechangereceptacles for money'of a denomination equal to or greater thanthat of the money received will be guarded while the changereceptaclesfor pieces of money of less denomination than the piece received will beunguarded; substantially as described.

2. In a device of the character indicated, a series ofdeposit-receptacles, guard members for said receptacles, a series ofchange-receptacles separate from the deposit-receptacles, guards forsaid change-rcceptacles,and means whereby when a guard member is removedfrom a deposit-receptacle of a given denomination, the guards 01": thechange-receptacles of less denomination are placed out of guardingposition while the guards of the other change-receptacles are inguarding position; substantially as described.

3. In a device of the character indicated, a series ofdeposit-receptacles, guard members for said dcposit-recept-acles,aseries of changereceptacles separate from the deposit-receptacles,guards above said change-receptacles, and means whereby when a guardmember is moved from its deposit-receptacle the guards of thechange-receptacles of lower denomination are thrown out of guardingposition 5 substantially as described.

4. In a device of the character indicated, a series ofdepositreceptacles, guard members for said deposit-receptacles,a seriesof changereceptacles separate from the deposit-receptacles, guards abovesaid change-receptacles, said guards having pivotal connection with thebody of, the device, and means whereby when a guard member is moved fromits receptacle the guards of the change-receptacles of lowerdenomination are turned out of guarding position, substantially asdescribed.

5. In a device of the character indicated, a series ofdepositreceptacles, guard members for said deposit-receptacles, a seriesof changereceptacles, rods pivoted in the change-receptacles, guardsupon said rods, said guards lyin g above the change-receptacles, andmeans change-receptacles of lower denomination are turned to throw theirguard-fingers out of operative position; substantially as described.

7. In a device of the character indicated, a series ofdeposit-receptacles, guard members for said deposit-receptacles,a seriesof changereceptacles, rods pivoted in the change-receptacles, guardsupon said rods, each guard ex tending above its change-receptacle, and afinger upon each rod in the path of movement of the guard members forthe deposit-recep tacles; substantially as described.

8. In a device of the character indicated, a series ofdeposit-receptacles,laterally-slidable guard members for saiddeposit-receptacles, a series of change-receptacles, rod-s pivoted inthe chan ge-receptacles, guards upon said rods, each guard extendingabove its change-receptacle, and a finger upon each rod in the path ofmovement of the guard members for the deposit-receptacles; substantiallyas described.

9. In a device of the character indicated, a series ofdeposit-receptacles,guideways above said deposit-receptacles, guardmembers for the deposit-receptacles laterally slidable on saidguideways, a series of change-receptaeles, rods pivoted in thechange-receptacles, guards upon said rods, each guard extending aboveits change -receptacle, and a finger upon each rod in the path ofmovement of the guard members for the deposit-recepta cles;substantially as described.

10. In a device of the character indicated, .a series ofdeposit-receptacles, guideways above said deposit-reeeptacles, guardmembers for the deposit-receptaeles laterally slidable on saidguideways, a series of change receptaeles, rods pivoted in thechange-receptacles, guards upon said rods, each guard extending aboveits change-receptacle, and a finger upon each red in the path ofmovement of the guard members for the depesit-recep tacles, the guardmembers being, on the side opposite to that toward which the fingersswing to carry the change-guards into inoperative position, providedwith slots to receive the fingers; substantially as described.

11. In a device of the character indicated, a series of compartmentshaving deposit-receptacles and change reecptacles therein, rods pivotedin said compartments across both receptacles, guards upon said rods,each guard lying above its change-receptacle, a finger upon each of saidrods in the deposit-receptacles, and guard members for the depositreceptacles, the before-mentioned fingers in the deposit-receptacleslying in the path of movement of the guard members in exposing a depositreceptacle; substantially as described.

12. In adevice of the character indicated, a series of compartmentshaving deposit-receptacles and change-receptacles therein, rods pivotedin said compartments across both receptacles, guards upon said rods,each guard lying above its change-receptacle, a finger upon each of saidrods in the deposit-receptacles, guard members for thedeposit-receptacles, the before-mentioned fingers in thedeposit-receptacles lying in the path of movement of the guard membersin exposing a deposit-receptacle, and false bottoms in the compartmentsabove the rods; substantially as described.

13. In a device of the character indicated, a series ofdeposit-receptacles, guard members for said deposit-receptacles,a seriesof changereceptacles, guards normally above said change-receptacles,means whereby when a guard member is moved to expose a depositreceptaeleof a given denomination the guards of change-receptacles of lowerdenomination are thrown out of operative position, and means wherebywhen a guard member is moved to uncover a deposit-receptacle of a givendenomination the change-guard of the corresponding denomination isreturned to its operative position if ithad previously been ininoperative position; substantially as described.

14;. In a device of the character indicated, a series ofdeposit-receptacles, guard members for said deposit-receptacles,a seriesof changereceptacles separate from the deposit-receptacles,rods pivotedin said ehange-receptacles, guards upon said rods, weighted arms uponsaid rods whereby the guards are normally held in operative position,and means whereby when a guard member is moved to expose itsdeposit-receptacle the rods in the changereceptacles of lowerdenomination are turned to carry the guards out of operative position;substantially as described.

15. In a device of the character indicated, a series of compartmentshaving each an entrance and an exit opening, guard members for theentrance-openings, guards for the exit-openings, and means whereby whena guard is moved to expose an entrance-opening for money of a givendenomination the guards for the exit-openings for money of adenomination equal to or greater than that of the entrance-openingexposed will be in guarding position while the guards for theexit-openings for money of a denomination less than of theentrance-opening exposed will be out of guarding position; substantiallyas described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

MICHAEL RICHARD DALEY.

Witnesses:

ABBA N. LINCOLN, ARMEL L. AUDET.

